The infamous UT Rocky Top/Lee Corso Commercial...

#76
#76
(Jasongivm6 @ May 31 said:
He's not jealous of anyone.
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I beg to differ.I'd be willing to bet he's jealous of Shakira's boyfriend. :dunno:
 
#77
#77
(utfantilidie @ May 31 said:
I beg to differ.I'd be willing to bet he's jealous of Shakira's boyfriend. :dunno:
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How do you know I'm not Shakira's boyfriend?
 
#78
#78
(hatvol96 @ May 31 said:
How do you know I'm not Shakira's boyfriend?
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I wouldn't spend a lot of time on a football message board if I were Shakira's boyfriend. :peace2:
 
#79
#79
(hatvol96 @ May 31 said:
How do you know I'm not Shakira's boyfriend?
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My guess would be you would probably find a better way to spend your free time instead of what ever it is you say you do on this site,ie.fight,argue,annoy,jab,belittle,degrade,irritate,aggravate,tick off,etc.:biggrin2:
 
#81
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(utfantilidie @ May 31 said:
My guess would be you would probably find a better way to spend your free time instead of what ever it is you say you do on this site,ie.fight,argue,annoy,jab,belittle,degrade,irritate,aggravate,tick off,etc.:biggrin2:
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You're right. I'm extremely fortunate, but not that fortunate. Miami/Ft. Lauderdale does have its fair share of Shakira wannabes. That is a good thing.
 
#82
#82
I don't get this. To this dirt poor middle Tennesse Hillbilly that grew up amongst chickens, swine, good moonshine :p etc., I think the commercial is funny. There is a law in southern middle TN..."if you can't laugh at yourself you must not laugh at anyone else." So what our region of the country is regarded as poor and uneducated? Look what we've done with that. We have a great state these days. Smile and learn to take a poke every once in a while. We have nothing to be ashamed of. These poor people down here in AL however.....
 
#83
#83
(OldVol @ May 31 said:
And I suppose the Blacks were wrong for complaining about the idiot sports caster, whose name escapes me, who said blacks were better suited for sports because they had different muscle make-up than whites.

He got the boot because he offended a large group.

Just because you're too insensitive to understand things you've never experienced does not make you right.
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Beano?
 
#86
#86
Poor attempt at humor, imo. Why use a negative stereotype? Why not just do something funny with a mascot or something? There is no reason that they should have ran a commercial depcting Tennessee fans in such a way. There still are negative stereotypes towards the South and people see that stuff and laugh AT us, not with us.

It was a poor attempt at making something funny, and there was no reason to do it. They could have came up with something better that wasn't going to offend people.

Like raised earlier: how is the comment about blacks being better at sports racist, but saying Tennesseans are hillbilly rednecks that live with animals and go out wearing moomoos and shower caps not offensive?

You don't have to be personally, deeply offended to realize something is offensive towards a group.
 
#87
#87
I thought this was genuinely funny. I worked with "Bud" Jones, a 59 year older brother of Dale Jones. When I found out that their were 18 of them (yes, Dale Jones has 17 brothers and sisters), I asked, simply, "How did that happen?"


"Bud" said, "Momma and Daddy lived too close to the railroad tracks. It used to wake Daddy up in the middle of the night."


That's a real story.
 
#88
#88
the best way to end this arguement is to just simply state that each person has his/her opinion and let it be. theres no use debating for 5 pages. we all just need to learn to let it go.
 
#90
#90
(allvol@15 @ Jun 2 said:
the best way to end this arguement is to just simply state that each person has his/her opinion and let it be. theres no use debating for 5 pages. we all just need to learn to let it go.
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Right on brother. It's gone so who gives a rats ass? Was just a bunch of ignorant hype so why let ESPN get the best of us?
 
#91
#91
(hatvol96 @ May 31 said:
How do you know I'm not Shakira's boyfriend?
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I know youre not because something tells me you were the 5th member of ''New Kids on the Block''
 
#92
#92
(Ole Smoky @ Jun 2 said:
I know youre not because something tells me you were the 5th member of ''New Kids on the Block''
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That "something," most likely one of the myriad of voices in your head, would be wrong. I'm more of a Public Enemy or Guns 'n Roses type.
 
#93
#93
(hatvol96 @ Jun 2 said:
That "something," most likely one of the myriad of voices in your head, would be wrong. I'm more of a Public Enemy or Guns 'n Roses type.
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Yeah i could see you being a Axle Rose type of guy.
 
#94
#94
(OldVol @ May 31 said:
I understand and respect your perspective; it is a perspective of a younger generation that really did not have to battle the powerful, negative stereotypes of the people of the Appalachian regions.

I was raised in the poorest county in Tennessee. (At least at the time I was a child it was the poorest)

I remember the jokes and insensitive remarks my cousins from NJ and Michigan would make about ignorance in the South, to their parent's chagrin. Those jokes were one of the reasons I determined to lift myself from the poverty I endured as a child. Even though we were poor, contrary to popular stereotypes of the day, we did not have chickens and pigs in the house. We had both, but they were a source of life for most poor, rural families in the South, especially in the regions left behind by much of the industrial age.

I understand how younger Tennesseans might not feel the sting of such hurtful jokes, but those of us who lived through poverty in the region understand that our homes were just as clean as those in the better neighborhoods, if not as superior.

The piece by ESPN was very insensitive. It dug at the memories of a generation that overcame the harsh rigors of want and poverty. It’s easy to say there’s nothing there to offend if you’ve never been offended by the personal distaste of need. It’s easy to dismiss such things if you’ve never experienced true poverty, the kind where parents were overheard at times, in hushed tones discussing what they were going to do for groceries for the next week.

It was times like that when those chickens in the coop, and those pigs in the pin began to look more and more like a life-line, and less and less like a joke.
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That clip didn't have anything to do with poverty. It has to do with being red, and if the shoe fits you have to wear it. But like Jeff Foxworthy once said "if you get 30 miles outside of any city everyone is the same."
 
#95
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(lawgator1 @ May 31 said:
It was a mock PBS Frontline report with a dead pan reporter who goes in search of Clayton Bigsby, a renowned author of books on white supremacy.

When the reporter makes his way to Bigsby's home, he finds that Bigsby is actually black! The gimmick is that he's blind, so he doesn't know he's black. He was raised at an all-white orphanage and taught to be racist.

The rest of the skit has Bigsby and the reporter going to different meetings of the KKK and book signings as they encounter situations designed to highlight the irony. For example, they are at a stoplighht and there is a car next to them with three or four white teenagers, dressed up in what you might call urban gear, listening to rap music.

Bigsby leans out the window and yells at them to turn the "jungle music" down, "G__damn nig ___s," he mutters under his breath (not realizing of course that he is black). The kids in the car look at each other and one asks, "Did he just call us nig___s?" After a pause, they all high five each other, excited that a black man called them that.

It is sort of hard to describe. But it is genuinely one of the funniest damn things I have ever seen in my life. And it is so precisely because it is making fun of the stereotype itself by joking within it.
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(rockytopinalabam @ Jun 4 said:
That clip didn't have anything to do with poverty. It has to do with being red, and if the shoe fits you have to wear it. But like Jeff Foxworthy once said "if you get 30 miles outside of any city everyone is the same."
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True story. I've got a friend who lives way up in the hills. He's got a family of neighbors who fit the hillbilly stereotype so well you'd think you were in Appalachia.
 
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What does Foxworthy call ''redneck''...a glorious absensce of sophistication. Well I among others on this board were raised around the pigs, chickens, and gardens. Tobacco and hay crops gave me my walkin aroung $ when I was a kid. In this environment while you were poor and unsophisticated you picked up an education on self reliance and pro activity. This farm life along with an exposer to guns and hunting I have no doubt if need be that I could provide for my family. Can those who grew up in urban or even suburbian areas say the same? Take a good moment to look at our economy with the national debt accelerating like the cents on the gas pump, and tell me what would happen should our economy collapse. Id urge everyone to educate themselves in plantin taters and deer huntin....how to sharpen a knife, skinnin a squirrel. Could be someday your only option other than that would be stealing or begging. Yeah there are times when Im around folks that have beautiful homes and cars...nice clothes and seemely bottomless bank accounts that I covet a little. But at other times I just am thankful for the life Ive led and what Ive learned, because what I picked up will always feed and protect me and mine.
 
#98
#98
Go catch me a mess of catfish then!!


And while you're at it, clean 'em too. :birgits_giggle:
 
#99
#99
(dan4vols @ Jun 4 said:
What does Foxworthy call ''redneck''...a glorious absensce of sophistication. Well I among others on this board were raised around the pigs, chickens, and gardens. Tobacco and hay crops gave me my walkin aroung $ when I was a kid. In this environment while you were poor and unsophisticated you picked up an education on self reliance and pro activity. This farm life along with an exposer to guns and hunting I have no doubt if need be that I could provide for my family. Can those who grew up in urban or even suburbian areas say the same? Take a good moment to look at our economy with the national debt accelerating like the cents on the gas pump, and tell me what would happen should our economy collapse. Id urge everyone to educate themselves in plantin taters and deer huntin....how to sharpen a knife, skinnin a squirrel. Could be someday your only option other than that would be stealing or begging. Yeah there are times when Im around folks that have beautiful homes and cars...nice clothes and seemely bottomless bank accounts that I covet a little. But at other times I just am thankful for the life Ive led and what Ive learned, because what I picked up will always feed and protect me and mine.
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I'm not surprised Dan4. You strike me as a self reliant sort.
 
#100
#100
Bottom line is the commercial was tasteless and dumb there was no point to it but just to piss off vol fans even more they were rubbing it in our face because they didnt ''get'' :corso: us
 
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